Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f19e01b416e96ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ef3a353d0e08dc8f05b8c5aa024bcc1c SHA-1: cd22deed294817b99a4f77e31b20c6ebcc871558 SHA-256: 4f19e01b416e96ba0439cae46259ae5f31b456588076c48f8413bf96ae5cdee6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicative of a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The presence of ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classifier flagging further supports its malicious nature. The document's structure and URL patterns suggest it is used for phishing or distributing malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/felowadivisewake.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lore4gkhk13v2u2bu78rhug756/24780884975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/665c52bc0d9a2daf85acfc79456a4fd9/tubonetubawaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://filetorme.com/upload/files/bavulez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895835c739f---80646179621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tarasovfabrika.ru/uploads/file/pijole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brakos.it/file/66210854576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c981f6fdc1f5ac2154a554a578a13f23/wumegoxosusokenonefojelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/70283708407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapraptti.org/userfiles/file/62293072120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisnomor.com/contents//files/20830014370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3a80310d9be03b79999a8cf0165564/mubevovatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/85226648238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qk4iutfa1a0trobropbm8s6ch7/43088699579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608091efcb217---dogigezerewuzomixadari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deckdreams.com/clients/3/34/34055ef41782f8f15ebf372c1e39ecad/File/49727077835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/81732401689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859dfc51db0---vibup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zegebijuzelutuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thcscatquea.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21761618558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chroscina.com/userfiles/file/finuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53431574887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddc1d6ccd5---80857867004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemwishrs.com/ckfinder/stones/files/38961687942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tissue+culture+project+report+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE7E 16684 bytes
SHA-256: e775a668e64438fdadec28e5b49813a4604aa7d3631e067b34697b4679267d72
font_01_sfnt_off0000e985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE985 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001019c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019C 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa73127f80ad4f3d49cb94b435f8736b3725d80859d5761a2a01ff3ba72dea1